Space

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope built for NASA completed its on-orbit checkout, General Dynamics Corp. [GD] announced. The company completed the Launch and Early Orbit Phase (LEOP) of the telescope. Fermi, […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] delivered the 200,000th Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tailkit, just 10 years after JDAM guidance tailkit deliveries to the United States and allied countries began. Boeing […]

Report Says Missile Threat Worsens, Outlines Need For American BMD System Russia successfully launched a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that Moscow claims can defeat U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]

The Europeans wish to be independent of the United States in space, including a capacity to make their own satellites and launchers. As the United States falls on hard times, […]

Barring Problems, Atlantis Lifts Off Oct. 10, Endeavour Slated For Nov. 12 Blast-Off After Atlantis, Endeavour Go Aloft, Only Nine Shuttle Missions To Launch Before Shuttle Fleet Retires In 2010 […]

Japan succeeded in using a Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC-3) interceptor to take out a target tactical ballistic missile, but a U.S. test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or […]

Provision Doesn’t Specify Which Nation Is Site The Senate voted out a defense authorization bill for the soon-to-begin fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, approving an amendment that would provide […]

The United States shouldn’t leap to expand its missile defense system to protect U.S. military and civilian space assets from enemy attack, Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of the Air […]

Chinese Rocket Rolled Out To Launch Pad, As Taikonauts Arrive For Manned Mission Chinese space workers finished rolling out the Long-March II-F rocket topped by a spaceship, moving the system […]

NASA Extends Information Technology Contract For $214.4 Million NASA extended the Unified NASA Information Technology Services, or UNITeS, contract with Science Applications International Corp. [SAI] of San Diego. This extension […]